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Red Bean, Job's Tears, and Jujube Milk Porridge — finished dish, ready to serve.

Red Bean, Job's Tears, and Jujube Milk Porridge

红枣红豆薏仁牛奶粥 · pan chinese cuisine

100 min total80 min cooking5 stepssweetcreamy

The author uses a multi-function rice cooker with a steam and a baby-porridge setting; if your cooker lacks the baby-porridge setting, use the porridge setting, or the rice-cooking setting, cooking with the lid open if it bubbles over. Job's tears are considered cooling in Chinese food therapy, so the author advises pregnant women and those menstruating to skip this dish. The water should be more than for cooking rice but less than for a typical porridge, since milk is added at the end; if the porridge looks thin before adding milk, reduce the milk. Soaking the beans overnight helps them break down (unnecessary in a pressure cooker). Use more rock sugar with plain milk, less with sweetened milk. Optional oats can be added at the end: instant oats need only a few minutes, raw oats longer. The recipe serves two, about two bowls per person, with a total time of about 1 hour 20 minutes (10 minutes boiling plus 60 minutes porridge cycle plus about 10 minutes with the milk).

Yuki Tanaka's profile photoYuki TanakaTokyo-born, now in Chicago. I post about dashi, pickles, and bento for picky kids. My kitchen is tiny but my knife game is sharp.

Nutrition & allergens

Contains:Milk

Some ingredients are not yet allergen-surveyed; this label is not exhaustive.

Per serving (2 servings)

Energy (kcal)
Unknown
Protein (g)
Unknown
Fat (g)
Unknown
Carbs (g)
Unknown
Sodium (mg)
Unknown

Estimated from verified ingredient data for the original formula — not lab values, and one dish is not a full meal.

Techniques you'll use

Steps

  1. 1

    Step 120 min

    Red Bean, Job's Tears, and Jujube Milk Porridge — step 1 visual checkpoint.

    Rinse the red beans and Job's tears (in a 2:1 ratio) and soak for 20 minutes. If time allows, soak them overnight to make them easier to cook soft.

    ✅ Done when: The beans are rinsed clean and have soaked for the full 20 minutes.

  2. 2

    Step 270 min

    Simmering (dun) ↗
    Red Bean, Job's Tears, and Jujube Milk Porridge — step 2 visual checkpoint.

    Put the beans in the rice cooker and add 1.5 times the water you would normally use for cooking rice. Run the steam setting; once the water boils, cook 10 minutes, then switch to the baby-porridge setting for 60 minutes.

    ✅ Done when: The water has come to a boil and held 10 minutes, then the 60-minute porridge cycle has completed.

  3. 3

    Step 330 min

    Red Bean, Job's Tears, and Jujube Milk Porridge — step 3 visual checkpoint.

    After 30 minutes of cooking, add the rock sugar and the jujubes, cut in half (whole is also fine, as you like).

    ✅ Done when: About 30 minutes of cooking time has elapsed and the sugar and jujubes are stirred in.

  4. 4

    Step 410 min

    Simmering (dun) ↗
    Red Bean, Job's Tears, and Jujube Milk Porridge — step 4 visual checkpoint.

    After 30 more minutes, add the milk and run the steam setting until it comes to a boil and cooks a few minutes. You can add oats at this point.

    ✅ Done when: The porridge returns to a gentle boil and bubbles for a few minutes after the milk goes in.

  5. 5

    Step 5

    Red Bean, Job's Tears, and Jujube Milk Porridge — step 5 visual checkpoint.

    Serve and enjoy.

    ✅ Done when: The porridge is hot, creamy, and ready in bowls.